The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-29


courts.
at Sheepshead Bay, June 18th, the great
race for the Suburban stakes was won by
Eurus, Ben Ali and Quito being left at the
post. Richmond was the favorite in the
betting. The other races were won by
Cleaner, Berlin, Omaha, Hanover and
Baassance
A tornado blew down twenty-five build
ings in Grand Forks, D. T., killed four peo-
pie and injured fourteen others.
By the burning of the steamer Champ
lain off Charlevoix, Mich, twenty lives
were lost. The steamer Vidette has been
wrecked off the Florida coast.
James G. Blaine arrived in England
June 18th
At Brussels, June 18th, the Chamber of
Deputies, by 80 to Al, passed bill for forti-
flying the Meuse.-
The London police have issued circular
warning chemists and other persons deal
ing in explosive substances not to sell dyna-
mite compounds to suspicious persons.
The Government offered reward of 9100
for information regarding the illegal man
VI uyudInIG6. Inc 10 dl-
most identical with one issued in 1888.
1t is rumored that kilograms have been
received from London ordering the Indian
Government to forward troops to the AT
CHAN frontier. Also it is said that orders
have been issued for the completion of
railway line to Candahar and the extern
sion of the Peshawur Railway to Jumrood.
At meeting held at Liverpool, June
18th, of owners representing 100000
spindles, resolution was adopted recon-
mending that factories run on shorter
time. 1t is believed here that the short
time movement will prove abortive.
The journal des Debats" has the dis
patch from Rome which SAYS that the au-
tograph letter sent by the Pope to the
Queen of England congratulating her upon
her jubilee, expresses a wish for the re-es-
Enlistment of official relations with Eng
land.
General Ferron, the French Minister of
War. will submit to the Chamber of Depu-
ties project for the creation of four new
cavaly regiments, eight new infantry regi-
ments, and for an increase of the effective
strength of the companies of the present
regiments.
The Chamber of Deputies has passed the
first clause of the Army bill, which de-
clares it the duty of every Frenchman to
perform military service M. de Morny
has withdrawn his resignation as President
of the Army Committee.
Buffalo Bill gave private exhibition of
the Wild West show at london June Goth.
There were four XII present, namely,
King of Denmark. KiI..- of Greece, King of
Saxony and King of the Belgians. Besides
these were the Crown Prince Rudolph of
Austria, the Hereditary Prince and Prin-
cess of Saxe-Meiningen, the Crown Prince
and Princess of Prussia, the Crown Prince
of Sweden and Norway, the Princess Vic
toria of Prussia, the Duke of Sparta, Prince
George of Greece, Prince Louis of Baden
and others.
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, British
High Commissioner, has notified the Porte
that Queen Victoria has appended her sig
nature to the Anglo-Turk1sh Convention
concerning Egypt, and that Her Majesty
awaits the issue of the Sultan's decree an
nouncing the convention in force.
A new Ministry has been formed in Ser
via.
In the House of Lords, June 18th, Wis
count Cross, Secretary of State for India,
announced that Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of
India, had telegraphed on June 9th that
there was no fighting going on in Afghan
istan.
The priests in the Golden Temple at Am
ritter, in Punj aub, ceased to offer the Gus
tomary prayer for Dhuleep Singh, when
they heard he was intriguing with Russia
against India.
Advices from Merv, June 18th, say the
Russians are fitting out two steamers and
a number of iron lighters to transport the
material of the Transcaspian Railway and
to reconnoiter on the Amu-Daria river.
The British are equipping two light-draft
steamers with steel guns for use upon the
Amu-Dara.
fire broke out in the stables of the
Mound City Street Car Company, st.
Louis, June 14th. The stables were totally
destroyed and 315 mules persisted in the
flames The loss will be over $50, 600.
LONDON, June 11th.-M. Washington,
French ambassador, has resumed negotia-
tons with Lord Salisbury in the Suez
Canal and New Hebrides neutrality ques-
tions.
PHILADELPHIA, June 11th.-William Ba-
con Stevens, d. D., Bishop of the Diocese
of Pennsylvania of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church, died this morning.
LONDON, June 11th.-Lord Tennyson is
suffering from a.severe attack of govt, and
has been ordered away on a yacht cruise
for the benefit of his health. The Prince of
Wales has therefore asked Lewis Morris to
write the inaugural ode for the Imperial
Institute. Sullivan will set it to music,
and will conduct its rendition by monster
chorus and orchestra at Albert Hall, July
4th, in the presence of the Queen.
A special from Montreal, Jrne 18th, in
reference to the .rumor af,oat that the
North German Lloyds Company will
shortly start line of steamers from this
point, says: Ivan Horne, General Man
ager of the Canadian Pacific, has intimated
to the people of Manitoba that if they con-